Our varied experience in housing design and cultural projects allows us to work on a broad array of schemes of varying scales and budgets.

We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach which fosters flexible and dynamic working relationships and enables us to bring together the best design team for each project from our network of creative practitioners. We approach each brief with an attempt to understand, problem solve, and make beautiful.

CAN begin every project with an extremely open mind and work closely with the whole project team to deliver exciting and unexpected results.

Mat Barnes - DirectorHaving previously worked for high-end private residential firm Paul Archer Design and as an Associate at Studio 54 Architecture, Mat consolidated his various creative projects to form CAN in 2016. He has been responsible for delivering schemes ranging in construction cost from £150,000 to £8million and has experience working with both public and private clients.